Romano Guerra Editora and Galeria Gomide&Co are launching the book Três casas: estratégias de projeto (Three Houses: Design Strategies). The publication explores the design methodologies of three contemporary architecture firms—Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Ryue Nishizawa, and Aires Mateus—to understand each architect's modus operandi through experimental houses: the Poli House (Coliumo Peninsula, Chile, 2005), the Moriyama House (Tokyo, Japan, 2005), and the House in Coruche (Portugal, 2007). These projects point toward an expansion of the architectural lexicon that transcends classical movements—such as modernism and postmodernism—by introducing new aspects: spatial neutrality, ambivalence in the design of boundaries, and the tensioning of abstract forms.
The Poli House, designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen and built in 2005 in Chile, articulates its program through a peripheral vertical circulation system that inhabits the facades, creating a complex internal organization of varying levels and ceiling heights. The Moriyama House, designed by Ryue Nishizawa in 2005 in Japan, fragments the domestic program into autonomous volumes arranged across the lot and interspersed with a garden open to the street, establishing an unusual relationship between the building, the site, and the city.
